Animation Design

Animation is a versatile medium, and can make commercial videos as entertaining and memorable as a great cartoon. Our corporate and creative clients – including Apple, AOL, and Microsoft – love the way hand-crafted animation brings their story to life.

Mad Bird Design has contributed award-winning animation, visual effects and motion graphics to feature and short films, marketing and corporate videos. Artist Patrick Neary combines the tools of traditional illustration, drawing and painting with state-of-the-art motion graphics software. His rich visual style and technical skill is showcased in several animated short films, which have played film festivals worldwide and racked up tens of thousands of views online.

No Flash or clip art here, but you’ll find original design in a variety of 2D and 3D animation techniques: hand-drawn illustration in whiteboard and full color styles, hand-crafted set design, painted backgrounds, and stop motion characters. We deliver short animated components, post-production compositing, or end-to-end production.

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Many times, we’ve benefitted from the ridiculously awesome services of Mad Bird – most recently, the terrific motion design work of Patrick Neary. But Mad Bird’s ranginess extends to high end cinematography (Neary’s been known to shoot features with a SteadyCam while riding backwards on a Segway), award-winning still photography, and many different kinds of animation. When you’re talking to Mad Bird, you’re talking to complete filmmakers. Did I mention they’re very sweet people? Because that’s a thing.

"I greatly appreciate the work of Michele at Mad Bird Design. Her attentive responses and quality of work is exemplary. Michele was able to capture not just our basic needs in a website but go deeper and project our philosophy, company culture and brand commitments."

"Michele has helped us successfully brand our new sustainability program and to provide high quality, effective tools to educate employees and constituents. I strongly recommend Michele for any creative design work, and can guarantee that in a very short time you will look at her work product and say 'It's a Neary!'"

"The site looks fantastic. It’s a substantial improvement over the current one and puts a new and more modern face on the company. Thanks so much for your all of your quick and superlative design work. We’re excited to start marketing with this site!"

“I can’t overstate what great work you’ve done and how it has helped us immensely! The new Hillsboro 2035 Community Plan looks beautiful, we’ve gotten a number of compliments so far, and I’m sure we’ll get many more.”